We’ve been working away on the third album, "How to be a Cloud," aiming for a September release. Woo-hoo! Here’s the way I work: I get enough songs together to think about an album, and my brilliant producer Zak Rizvi and I make a plan and get going. Shortly after we start, I come up with another song while at the grocery store, and then another while doing the dishes, one while lying awake at night, etc., and now, as we speak, we have an album of about 25 songs. As the amount of data a CD can hold hasn’t changed in a gazillion years, that for sure is a few songs too many.
So: we have to choose, and let some go, or at least put them on the shelf for the next time. A good problem to have, as they say. It can be hard to let any songs you’ve written go, but they don’t all make the cut. Stay tuned! I’m very close to sending out a preview...
An aside: While grownup songs are all about “I want to break up/make up/I love you/I don’t love you/I never loved you....”, one of the things I love about kids’ songs is that they're wide open, subject-wise, and can be about caterpillars and dirt and roller coasters and the moon, and they’re usually not metaphors for anything. (Or, in the case of my upcoming album: cookies and pancakes and sunflowers and kites....!)